I am having problems with Gnomad2, it doesn't seem to recognise that my Zen Micro mp3 player is connected. I am running Slackware 10, and I installed Gnomad with a package from linuxpackages.net. I installed the dependencies as well, libnjb and libid3tag, they compiled without errors.

When I connect my mp3 player with the usb cable and run Gnomad2, it starts up and gives me the message: "No jukeboxes found on USB bus". It is definately connected however since when I use the command, "cat /proc/bus/usb/devices" I get this:

Does anyone have any thoughts?

what firmware version?

Thanks for the reply, the firmware version is 1.01.03. It's the same one that came on the player, I haven't upgraded it since I got it.

This is a little bug with gnomad2.
Start it with root priveledges it should work then.
Problem being that an ordinary user dosnt have access to dev/sda under gnomad or something to that effect.

I tried it as root but I still get the same error....

I just found out something interesting. In the libnjb directory there are some sample programs for communicating with the device, and with one of them I was actually able to transfer a song from my hard disk. But I really don't want to have to use the command line to transfer all of my music, I'd really rather use Gnomad2...

did you do this:

http://gnomad2.sourceforge.net/?section=article

once I followed the above, it worked great ( as a normal user ). Note that if you upgrade the firmware to one of the 2.x versions, gnomad2 will no longer work with it ( or the creative software that came with it).

I removed the package for Gnomad with pkgtool, and I'm going try what __J suggested and install it from source instead. But I get an error when I use ./configure:

configure: error: Library requirements ( glib-2.0 gthread-2.0 gtk+-2.0 libgnomeui-2.0 libnjb) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

So then I installed glib, that went OK. I can't even find anything called gthread, so I went onto gtk+ 2.0. It has lots of dependencies which apparently I don't have (although I'm sure I should). One of which is pango, and when I try to install that it gives an error saying that I don't have glib installed (which I had just installed a few minutes previously)! So in other words I'm stuck. Any suggestions. And thanks for the replys.

not install from source, but setting up hotplug per the instructions I linked. also, where did you get libnjb? IIRC I read that it had to be the latest cvs version to function properly ( I didn't try any other versions, after reading that I just checked out the cvs version and went with that)

I tried to install the CVS version of libnjb, but I somehow managed to get another error. The ./configure part goes alright, but when I give the make command, I get:

cd . && aclocal-1.9
/bin/sh: line 1: aclocal-1.9: command not found
make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 127

Sigh. I didn't expect it to be this tricky...there must be an easier way..?

you didn't install automake. if you're planning on compiling, you would be doing yourself a favor by adding ( most of them, you will not need them all) the packages in the /d directory.

I installed the automake package. Now the compile process gets a little further, but I get a different error now:

configure.ac: required file `./missing' not found
sample/Makefile.am: required file `./depcomp' not found
make: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1

Thanks for all your help so far, by the way

since you didn't have the correct development tools to begin with, you'll probably need to start over. Hell, just to save some time, I'd delete that directory and re-check it out of cvs. if it has a autogen.sh script in the source directory, make sure to run that before configure.

Are you sure of that?
I currently got 1.02.05 and have the same error as linmith.